2015年7月22日 星期三

Robert Alan Dahl (1915-2014 ) 論民主

"The twentieth century had been one of major failures and shocking triumphs of democracy." Robert Dahl, one of the twentieth century's leading social scientists, dedicated his life to studying the democratic system of government.

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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was involved in an academic disagreement with C. Wright Mills over the nature of politics in the United States.
Mills held that America's governments are in the grasp of a unitary and
demographically narrow power elite. Dahl responded that there are many
different elites involved, who have to work both in contention and in
compromise with one another. If this is not democracy in a populist sense, Dahl contended, it is at least polyarchy (or pluralism). In perhaps his best known work, Who Governs? (1961), he examines the power structures (both formal and informal) in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, as a case study, and finds that it supports this view.[citation needed]
From the late 1960s onwards, his conclusions were challenged by scholars such as G. William Domhoff and Charles E. Lindblom (a friend and colleague of Dahl).[citation needed]
In How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
(2001) he argued that the constitution is much less democratic than it
ought to be given that its authors were operating from a position of
"profound ignorance" about the future. However, he adds that there is
little or nothing that can be done about this "short of some
constitutional breakdown, which I neither foresee nor, certainly, wish
for."[citation needed]

Robert Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus in Political Science, passes away.

February 6, 2014

Robert
Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Senior
Research Scientist in Sociology, passed away yesterday at the age of
98. He died peacefully, surrounded by his family.
Professor Dahl was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the
American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, a corresponding member of the British Academy, an honorary
member of the Manuscripts Society and a past President of the American
Political Science Association. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws
(LL.D) degree from Harvard University. He was a Guggenheim fellow in
1950 and 1978 and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in
Behavioral Sciences in 1955–1956 and 1967. He was the 1995 recipient of
the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. He holds numerous honorary
doctorates in addition to other major awards in recognition of his
remarkable standing in the profession.
Professor Dahl was born in Inwood, Iowa in 1915 and in 1926 moved
with his family to Skagway, Alaska. His book, After the Goldrush:
Growing up in Skagway, described his life and adventures growing up in
the mountains and hills of Alaska.
He has written extensively and his publications include Congress and
Foreign Policy; Politics, Economics and Welfare (with C. E. Lindblom); A
Preface to Democratic Theory; Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an
American City; After the Revolution?; Polyarchy; Size and Democracy
(with E. R. Tufte); Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy; A Preface to
Economic Democracy; Controlling Nuclear Weapons: Democracy Versus
Guardianship; Democracy and Its Critics; Toward Democracy: A Journey; On
Democracy; How Democratic is the American Constitution?, Politica e
virtu’ , La teoria democratica de nuovo secolo, and On Political
Equality. His books have been published in multiple languages.
See him in an interview with Margaret Levi, editor of the Annual
Review of Political and professor of Political Science at University of
Washington here.
You can view his Department of Political Science at Yale University bio here.
Professor Dahl was a great teacher, mentor and friend. He will be missed.

- See more at:
http://politicalscience.yale.edu/news/robert-dahl-sterling-professor-emeritus-political-science-passes-away#sthash.jVDQBb6E.dpuf

Robert Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus in Political Science, passes away.

February 6, 2014

Robert
Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Senior
Research Scientist in Sociology, passed away yesterday at the age of
98. He died peacefully, surrounded by his family.
Professor Dahl was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the
American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, a corresponding member of the British Academy, an honorary
member of the Manuscripts Society and a past President of the American
Political Science Association. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws
(LL.D) degree from Harvard University. He was a Guggenheim fellow in
1950 and 1978 and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in
Behavioral Sciences in 1955–1956 and 1967. He was the 1995 recipient of
the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. He holds numerous honorary
doctorates in addition to other major awards in recognition of his
remarkable standing in the profession.
Professor Dahl was born in Inwood, Iowa in 1915 and in 1926 moved
with his family to Skagway, Alaska. His book, After the Goldrush:
Growing up in Skagway, described his life and adventures growing up in
the mountains and hills of Alaska.
He has written extensively and his publications include Congress and
Foreign Policy; Politics, Economics and Welfare (with C. E. Lindblom); A
Preface to Democratic Theory; Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an
American City; After the Revolution?; Polyarchy; Size and Democracy
(with E. R. Tufte); Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy; A Preface to
Economic Democracy; Controlling Nuclear Weapons: Democracy Versus
Guardianship; Democracy and Its Critics; Toward Democracy: A Journey; On
Democracy; How Democratic is the American Constitution?, Politica e
virtu’ , La teoria democratica de nuovo secolo, and On Political
Equality. His books have been published in multiple languages.
See him in an interview with Margaret Levi, editor of the Annual
Review of Political and professor of Political Science at University of
Washington here.
You can view his Department of Political Science at Yale University bio here.
Professor Dahl was a great teacher, mentor and friend. He will be missed.

- See more at:
http://politicalscience.yale.edu/news/robert-dahl-sterling-professor-emeritus-political-science-passes-away#sthash.jVDQBb6E.dpuf

Robert Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus in Political Science, passes away.

February 6, 2014

Robert
Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Senior
Research Scientist in Sociology, passed away yesterday at the age of
98. He died peacefully, surrounded by his family.
Professor Dahl was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the
American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, a corresponding member of the British Academy, an honorary
member of the Manuscripts Society and a past President of the American
Political Science Association. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws
(LL.D) degree from Harvard University. He was a Guggenheim fellow in
1950 and 1978 and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in
Behavioral Sciences in 1955–1956 and 1967. He was the 1995 recipient of
the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. He holds numerous honorary
doctorates in addition to other major awards in recognition of his
remarkable standing in the profession.
Professor Dahl was born in Inwood, Iowa in 1915 and in 1926 moved
with his family to Skagway, Alaska. His book, After the Goldrush:
Growing up in Skagway, described his life and adventures growing up in
the mountains and hills of Alaska.
He has written extensively and his publications include Congress and
Foreign Policy; Politics, Economics and Welfare (with C. E. Lindblom); A
Preface to Democratic Theory; Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an
American City; After the Revolution?; Polyarchy; Size and Democracy
(with E. R. Tufte); Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy; A Preface to
Economic Democracy; Controlling Nuclear Weapons: Democracy Versus
Guardianship; Democracy and Its Critics; Toward Democracy: A Journey; On
Democracy; How Democratic is the American Constitution?, Politica e
virtu’ , La teoria democratica de nuovo secolo, and On Political
Equality. His books have been published in multiple languages.
See him in an interview with Margaret Levi, editor of the Annual
Review of Political and professor of Political Science at University of
Washington here.
You can view his Department of Political Science at Yale University bio here.
Professor Dahl was a great teacher, mentor and friend. He will be missed.

- See more at:
http://politicalscience.yale.edu/news/robert-dahl-sterling-professor-emeritus-political-science-passes-away#sthash.jVDQBb6E.dpuf

Robert Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus in Political Science, passes away.

February 6, 2014

Robert
Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Senior
Research Scientist in Sociology, passed away yesterday at the age of
98. He died peacefully, surrounded by his family.
Professor Dahl was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the
American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, a corresponding member of the British Academy, an honorary
member of the Manuscripts Society and a past President of the American
Political Science Association. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws
(LL.D) degree from Harvard University. He was a Guggenheim fellow in
1950 and 1978 and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in
Behavioral Sciences in 1955–1956 and 1967. He was the 1995 recipient of
the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. He holds numerous honorary
doctorates in addition to other major awards in recognition of his
remarkable standing in the profession.
Professor Dahl was born in Inwood, Iowa in 1915 and in 1926 moved
with his family to Skagway, Alaska. His book, After the Goldrush:
Growing up in Skagway, described his life and adventures growing up in
the mountains and hills of Alaska.
He has written extensively and his publications include Congress and
Foreign Policy; Politics, Economics and Welfare (with C. E. Lindblom); A
Preface to Democratic Theory; Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an
American City; After the Revolution?; Polyarchy; Size and Democracy
(with E. R. Tufte); Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy; A Preface to
Economic Democracy; Controlling Nuclear Weapons: Democracy Versus
Guardianship; Democracy and Its Critics; Toward Democracy: A Journey; On
Democracy; How Democratic is the American Constitution?, Politica e
virtu’ , La teoria democratica de nuovo secolo, and On Political
Equality. His books have been published in multiple languages.
See him in an interview with Margaret Levi, editor of the Annual
Review of Political and professor of Political Science at University of
Washington here.
You can view his Department of Political Science at Yale University bio here.
Professor Dahl was a great teacher, mentor and friend. He will be missed.

- See more at:
http://politicalscience.yale.edu/news/robert-dahl-sterling-professor-emeritus-political-science-passes-away#sthash.jVDQBb6E.dpuf